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From the Editor’s Desk
Advance publications
The office of the
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
has recently
experienced a dramatic increase in the number of articles submit-
ted to this journal. The articles emanate from authors in many
diverse countries. As a consequence of the volume of articles,
we are experiencing delays in the length of time to publish them.
To obviate this, we have now made available an additional
option for authors to advance publish their articles online. We
must charge for this option as it involves additional expense.
Local authors in Africa will pay R1 000 and those overseas
R2 500. This amount could be budgeted for in the research grant
if one knows beforehand that the article needs to be advance
published.
Authors will now have the immediate benefit of having their
article appear online on PubMed, but will have to wait as usual
for the article to appear in the printed journal. We trust that this
will be of help in getting your important research to the immedi-
ate attention of other interested researchers and readers.
Please contact Elsabé Burmeister at
for
more information.
Fig. 1. The ratio of articles received and rejected for the
Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
from January 2007 to
July 2010.
180
160
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
2007
2008
2009
2010
6 months
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